Koza has outstanding track record of a 38% average annual return for the past five years.
Perhaps the most cunning use of an evolutionary algorithm, though, is by Dr Koza himself.
Mike Koza, for example bought into financials like Radian Group, Genworth and CIT as investors panicked.
In 2001 Koza seized control of his investment account from a know-nothing broker at Morgan Stanley.
But Koza's wife, Maria, had told him he was crazy and urged him to become a do-it-yourselfer.
In 2001 Michael Koza, a civil engineer working in the waste management department in Sacramento County, Calif.
That is why I urge people to learn from Warren Buffetts Next Door like Michael Koza.
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But it is the work done by Dr Koza at Stanford that gives a real glimpse of the future.
Koza's approach is a mix of contrarian value and distressed investing--not unlike that of billionaires David Tepper and Andrew Beal.
The portfolio of Mike Koza has been made available to clients with separately managed accounts at Marketocracy Capital Management.
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During the financial crisis Koza made huge profits buying financial stocks like Genworth and Radian Group trading at bankruptcy level prices.
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"I had a full-service broker because I thought that was the way you were supposed to do it, " says Koza, now 51.
Warren Buffett Next Door (see Tap Your Inner Buffett) Mike Koza looks for similar market anomalies, only on a much smaller scale.
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Michael Koza is 51 year-old civil engineer from Sacramento who I profiled in my book (and in the current issue of Forbes magazine).
Koza immersed himself in Web research, spending hours each morning before work, during lunch breaks and evenings looking into stocks and devouring company documents online.
Mike Koza believes that he has an answer to that question.
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While Dr Koza's simulated circuits are recognisable variations on human inventions, Adrian Thompson of Sussex University in Britain has evolved a circuit that is literally incomprehensible.
But as Dr Koza points out, processing power is becoming less expensive all the time, while human designers are becoming scarcer to find and costlier to keep.
Koza is a value investor who looks for market overreactions.
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Of course one of the reasons that I noticed this particular factoid in the Baidu- Robin Li Businessweek story has to do with one of the Warren Buffetts Next Door I profile in my new book, Mike Koza.
Since February 2007, the model portfolios of seven of the Warren Buffetts Next Door (such as Randy McDuff, Chris Rees, Mike Koza, and Jack Weyland) and the other Marketocracy Masters have been made available to clients with separately managed accounts at Marketocracy Capital Management LLC (MCM), an S.E.
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